Trampoline, Tumbling & DMT competitions finished in Cali

Dong Dong, Xiao Tu (CHN)

*fig-news --: The first of three competition days for Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics got underway at El Pueblo Coliseum on Monday with qualifications and finals in the Men’s Synchronised Trampoline as well as the Women’s and Mixed Pairs Acro categories. China surprised with a rare mistake during qualifications, but 2011 World Champions Dong Dong & Xiao Tu redeemed themselves in the final, where they rediscovered their usual form and produced the most difficult routine of the day with high execution and synchronisation scores to clearly top the field. After a disappointing second routine, Denmark’s Peter Jensen and Christian Andersen outscored Portugal in the final to take the Bronze. Russia were the most consistent pair today with a fine overall performance to earn a deserved Silver.

With the withdrawal of Germany and USA, the men’s Synchronised Trampoline competition featured a field of nine pairs, eight of which qualified for the final. While preliminaries saw numerous pairs failing to complete their second routine, Great Britain’s Luke Strong and Nathan Bailey were left on the disappointing last rank.

Carlos Arturo Páez and Juan Carlos Valcárcel qualified to huge applause from their home crowd but the Colombian pair failed to find their rhythm in the final and finished at the bottom of the table. Russia’s Nikita Fedorenko/Dmitry Ushakov and Diogo Abreu/Tiago Lopes of Portugal, who were the only pairs to get through both preliminary routines fluently, qualified in the top two positions. And while Japan’s experienced Yasuhiro Ueyama/Takashi Sakamoto impressed with virtually perfect synchronisation in their first routine, they made mistakes in the second routine as well as in the final, and finished only fifth.

The women’s Synchronised Trampoline qualifications were marked by the impressive synchronisation of both the Ukrainian pair of Maryna Kyiko & Nataliia Moskvina (UKR) and Czech Republic’s Zita Frydrychova & Sandra Opalecka. Rosie MacLennan and Samantha Sendel’s (CAN) two routines featured the highest and lowest (0) difficulty values, while Xingping Zhong & Li Dan (CHN) scored high in execution in their first routine, but failed in their second.

The finals started from zero with new chances for all pairs. The World Champions from China then performed up to their marks again and came out on top. However, they were soon joined by Great Britain’s Amanda Parker / Katherine Driscoll, who stunned the crowd with flawless synchronisation and tied in first place for the Gold. Ukraine played safe with less difficulty than the first placed, but their clean routine scored high on synchronisation again to win them the Bronze. Canada had some timing issues and Russia failed to complete their routine.>>Final results > Qualification results

* 2nd Day of Trampoline CompetitionsThe Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics competitions at The World Games 2013 Cali continued on Tuesday with day two of three at El Pueblo Coliseum. On the programme were qualifications and finals in Men’s and Women’s Tumbling, as well as the Women’s Groups and Men’s Pairs Acrobatic Gymnastics categories.

The Tumbling events saw ZHANG Luo of China and Viktor KYFORENKO of Ukraine tie for the men’s World Games title and China’s LIA Fangfang prevail in the women’s event.

* Men’s Tumbling

Eight tumblers competed for the same number of available spots in the final, but with participation limited to a maximum of one gymnast per federation and China the only nation with two entries, it was left to that Zhang Luo and Yang Song to battle it out between themselves.

Reigning World Champion Yang was left standing with slightly lower execution values for his qualifying passes and Zhang realised his chance of competing for the medal spots. In the final he took a commanding lead, with high difficulty and flawless execution in both passes.

However, Zhang was joined on the top step of the podium by Ukraine’s Viktor Kyforenko, who came back strongly in the final after a mistake in his first qualifying pass, tying for first place. With nearly a four-point gap to Zhang and Kyforenko, 20-year-old crowd favourite Kristof Willerton of Great Britain took the Bronze, outscoring Russia’s Grigory Noskov.* source: f i g - n e w s>>Final results > Qualification results

* Women’s Double Mini-Trampoline

Reigning World Champion Svetlana Balandina of Russia qualified only in sixth rank, boasting the highest execution and the best overall qualifying score for her first pass, but struggling with her second. In the final, the 32-year-old gymnast showed all her experience, leaving her challengers in her wake with two difficult and cleanly executed passes. Top qualifier Corissa Boychuk, a former World Champion, also put in an overall consistent performance matching all but one of Balandina’s final values for execution and difficulty, which won the Canadian the Silver. Clean passes and the performance with the highest difficulty of the day earned Portugal’s Silvia Saiote the Bronze. She narrowly outscored Brazilian Mariana Carvalho de Aquino, who faced problems during the preliminaries, where she ranked last.

South Africa’s Bianca Zoonekynd performed two difficult passes to rank second in qualifying, but she failed to show her best in the final, finishing seventh.>>Final results

Canadians Denis Vachon and Keegan Soehn impressed with excellent performances in the preliminaries, taking first and second place respectively. With the rules allowing only one gymnast per country in the final, however, only Vachon advanced to the latter stages, where he finished a disappointing fifth.

World Champion Bruno Martini was not up to his usual standard in qualification, but he came back strongly in the final to take the World Games title. Both of his final passes were brilliant, marking the competition’s highest difficulty values. Qualified in third place, 20-year-old Mikhail Zalomin of Russia took a deserved Silver with an overall remarkable performance. Finally, André Lico, who hurt himself during his first pass in the preliminaries and consequently abandoned the second, produced the pass with the second highest difficulty value of the competition to win the Bronze. * source: f i g - n e w s>>Final results